Thirteenth Annual Meeting
Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Friday and Saturday, March 13–14, 2015
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Note: Unless otherwise specified, all events are in the Woolworth Center of Musical Studies, Room 102 (breaks and reception will be in the Atrium). |
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FRIDAY, MARCH 13 |
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11:00–12:00 |
Registration |
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12:00– 1:15 |
Short Paper Session 1
Chair: Mark Yeary, Univdersity of Louisville |
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12:00 |
Thematic Simultaneity and Structural Ambiguity in Prokofiev’s Sonata Forms
Rebecca Perry, Yale University |
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12:15 |
Shostakovich’s Dominants
Simon Prosser, City University of New York Graduate Center |
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12:30 |
Octatonic Polysemy in the Introduction to Part 2 of The Rite of Spring
Paul Lombardi, University of South Dakota |
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12:45 |
The melodies of L’Orestie and Pierre Boulez’s new compositional method
Joseph Salem, Yale University |
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1:00 |
Sound as Subjectivity: A Reconsideration of Gibsonian Affordance
Cora S. Palfy, Northwestern University |
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1:15– 1:30 |
Break/Registration
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1:30– 1:45 |
Welcoming Remarks
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1:45– 3:15 |
Long Paper Session 1: Nineteenth-Century Music
Chair: Kofi Agawu, Princeton University |
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1:45 |
In the French Style: Metric Types and Embodied Meaning in Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty
Matthew Bell, University of Texas at Austin |
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2:15 |
The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Trial, Error, and Chord Magic in Wagner’s Die Feen
Steven Vande Moortele, University of Toronto |
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2:45 |
Strange Narration: Cognitive Complexity in Mahler’s Late Adagios
Eric Hogrefe, University of Texas at Austin |
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3:15– 3:30 |
Break/Registration |
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3:30– 5:30 |
Professional Development Workshop (open to all registrants):
“The Materialities of Music Theorie”
Jairo Moreno, University of Pennsylvania (keynote speaker) |
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5:30– 6:00 |
Reception |
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7:00 |
Banquet
Location: Prospect House, Princeton University
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SATURDAY, MARCH 14 |
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8:00– 9:00 |
Executive Board Meeting (Woolworth 101) |
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9:00–10:30 |
Long Paper Session 2: Modernist Approaches
Chair: Jonathan Kochavi, Swarthmore College |
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9:00 |
Ravel’s Octatonic Scripts
Damian Blättler, Rice University
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9:30 |
Harmony, Rhetoric, and Linearity in Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet
Ryan Howard, William Paterson University |
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10:00 |
Jean Langlais’s Sharpwise Inflections
Nathan Lam, Indiana University |
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10:30–10:45 |
Break/Registration |
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10:45–12:30 |
Short Paper Session 2
Chair: Edward Latham, Temple University |
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10:45 |
Brahms and the Construction of the Ballad Genre
Jacob Gran, Louisiana State University |
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11:00 |
The Tonal Problem as a Source of Narrative in Brahms’s “Unbewegte laue Luft,” Op. 57 no. 8
Loretta Terrigno, City University of New York Graduate Center |
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11:15 |
Reconsidering Style Register in the Late Baroque
Gregory Decker, Bowling Green State University |
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11:30 |
How to Forge a Missing Link: Winfried Michel’s “Haydn” and the Style-Historical Imagination
Frederick Reece, Harvard University |
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11:45 |
Improving Retention Through Curricular Revision at a Small Comprehensive University
Anna Stephan-Robinson, West Liberty University |
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12:00 |
Harmonic Function in Popular Music
Ian Quinn, Yale University; and Christopher White, University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
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12:30– 1:45 |
Lunch and Business Meeting |
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1:45– 2:45 |
Keynote Address: Rameau and Enchanted Materialism
Jairo Moreno, University of Pennsylvania
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2:45– 3:00 |
Break |
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3:00–4:00 |
Long Paper Session 3: Eighteenth-Century Music
Chair: Scott Burnham, Princeton University |
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3:00 |
Cognition in Scottish Common Sense Music Theory, 1770-1786
Carmel Raz, Yale University |
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3:30 |
Menuets vicieux, Z figures, and sonic analogues: Embodied meanings of hypermeter in Haydn and Mozart’s symphonic minuets
Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska, Northwestern University |
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4:00–5:00 |
Long Paper Session 4
Chair, Daniel Zimmerman, University of Maryland
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4:00 |
Functional Neo-Riemannian Theory and Perceptual Voice-Leading Distance - A Lewinian Perspective
Andrew Aziz, Florida State University; and Trevor Haughton, Eastman School of Music |
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4:30 |
“Promissory Note” Narrative Strategies in Schubert’s Three-Key Expositions
Aaron Grant, Eastman School of Music |
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